1. Developing
Moodle 2.0
Martin Dougiamas
Lead Moodler
Executive Director, Moodle Pty Ltd

2. Open Source Software
Basic rights
Free to download
Free to use
Free to explore, modify and extend
Free to distribute (under GPL)
And you are also...
Free to help with development
Free to choose your service supplier
Free to run a business using it
Free to use something else!
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3. Statistics
Over 45,000 registered verified sites in 210 countries
Registered sites contain 30 million users,
3 million courses and 1.2 million teachers
About 500 sites have more than 10,000 users
Interface translated into 75 languages
54 specialised Moodle Partners
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4. Registered versions
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5. Usage
8032
3647
2880
2651
2087
1770
1312
1070 969 943
USA Spain UK Brazil Germany Portugal Mexico Australia Italy Canada
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6. Community roles
There are over 740,000 registered participants in
the Moodle Community at moodle.org
(about 1000 new accounts being created each day)
Other
8.0%
Software Devs
8.0% Teachers
35.0%
Researchers
11.0%
Educational Admins
16.0%
System Admins
22.0% Source: Moodle Community 2008
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7. Dev Community
Votes and
Bug
Discussion Ideas
reports
moodle.org
Quality
Open Source Priorities Information
Code
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8. Moodle Economics
Clients (Institutions, Government, Companies, Teachers)
Services
Contracting
Royalties
n atio
ns
moodle.com
Do
Contributing Contributing
Community Developers
Code
Discussion
etc
moodle.org Software
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9. Moodle Partners
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10. Moodle History
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11. History
1999 0.0 First prototype versions
11 / 2001 0.9 First pre-release version on the web
8 / 2002 1.0 Forum, Survey, Journal, Resources, Quiz...
8 / 2003 1.1 Backups, Workshop, Chat, Scales...
3 / 2004 1.2 Filters, Groups, Glossary, Lesson ...
5 / 2004 1.3 Calendar, Blocks, RSS, Media plugins ...
8 / 2004 1.4 Installer, Resources, Enrolments, Wiki...
6 / 2005 1.5 XHTML, Themes, Blocks, Gradebook ...
6 / 2006 1.6 Unicode, Database, Docs, Blogs, Reports ..
11 / 2006 1.7 Roles, Admin, Oracle and MSSQL, AJAX ..
3 / 2007 1.8 Accessibility, MNet, Forms, Multi-auth...
3 / 2008 1.9 Gradebook, Outcomes, Performance, Tags, Notes..
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12. 2.0Wait
for it!
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13. What drives
Moodle requests?
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14. Key Drivers
Administration
Control Integration
Usability Pedagogy
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15. 2.0
Major Rewriting Major New Features
•Database access / data handling •Repository integration
•File storage and handling •Portfolio integration
•Roles and enrolments •Conditional activities
•Messaging •Course completion
•Backups •Progress Tracking
•Gradebook and Roles •Feedback module
•Navigation and Blocks •Blog 2.0
•Themes •Resources 2.0
•Text formats •Site-wide groups
•Commenting •Secure RSS feeds
•Javascript handling •Web Services API
•Workshop 2.0 •IMS CC
•Wiki 2.0 •Community Hubs
•Lesson 2.0 •Totally flexible user fields
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16. 2.0
Major Rewriting Major New Features
•Database access / data handling •Repository integration
•File storage and handling •Portfolio integration
•Roles and enrolments •Conditional activities
•Messaging •Course completion
•Backups •Progress Tracking
•Gradebook and Roles •Feedback module
•Navigation and Blocks •Blog 2.0
•Themes •Resources 2.0
•Text formats •Site-wide groups
•Commenting •Secure RSS feeds
•Javascript handling •Web Services API
•Workshop 2.0 •IMS CC
•Wiki 2.0 •Community Hubs
•Lesson 2.0 •Totally flexible user fields
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17. Resources
file folder page url ims
resource
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18. Files
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19. Repositories
Almost
any other
content
repository
Moodle
Files
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20. Portfolios
Almost
any other
content
repository
Moodle
Files and Pages
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21. Navigation
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22. Usability
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23. Usability
Gradebook
Roles
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24. Themes
Consistency throughout all pages
Better separation of code from design
Allow templates if desired
Increased flexibility
Make designers happier
MORE BEAUTY!!!!
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25. Conditional activities
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26. Commenting
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27. Messaging
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28. Web Services API
SOAP
External XML-RPC
Server
Application
REST Moodle Core
Functions
AMF
External
Client
Application
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29. Community Hubs
Ordinary Moodle site
Building a course Taking a course
Template User Community User
Restore
In
Search Search
Download E
D 2
Publishing site Course Community site
List
C
3 Enrol
cache
zip
Backup B
A 1 Enrollable course
Downloadable course
Register as
Register as enrollable
downloadable Moodle Hub Server
eg hub.moodle.org
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30. Moodle long-term future
Moodle 2.0
Rewrite of the underlying platform
Infrastructure, connectivity etc
Moodle 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 .... 2.x
Pedagogy, teaching, learning, usability
And then ...
Single web service, perhaps?
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31. Questions?
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